All his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none to celebrate it with. As a kind of token, he made his Sex Life in Ancient Rome face.

litost /LEE-tohst/. noun. A Czech word defined by Milan Kundera as “a state of torment caused by a sudden insight into one’s own miserable self,” sometimes accompanied by a desire for revenge…to make another share in the suffering.[Read more…]

Mastodon, an open-source Twitter-like system, is mildly interesting on its own. But using it as a platform for Oulipo-inspired experimentation, like oulipo.social in which “No one is allowed to use the letter ‘e,’ or ‘any variant of it, that is found in Latin script,” is fun and fascinating.

Incidentally, Mouse Reeve, the creator of oulipo.social, also collaborated on Drift, an amazing experimental typography book (and site) that featured randomly generated typographical compositions.